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Stuck!

This post shed light on areas that are usually overlooked in our social political and cultural interactions with one another and also that we would need to continue learning to unstuck ourselves and others when facing difficulties.

Change presents itself in many forms and shapes but how to embrace it depends on our ability to unstuck ourselves from what blocks change. Enjoy!

Stuck

The world of software development seems stuck. Have you felt that stuckness yourself? The kind of stuckness where we find ourselves experiencing a difficulty and every attempt to get ourselves out of it only serves to maintain or worsen the situation?

This recent blog post by Steve Chapman (courtesy of John Wenger) explains the idea in much detail. In case you don’t have the time to read it in full right now, here’s a summary:

Stuck situations arise through the mishandling of difficulties in a number of different ways:

Trying harder from the same mindset that created them

Oversimplifying or denying the complex nature of the difficulty

Creating utopian oversimplified solutions (a silver bullet)

Accidentally creating a stuck paradox by attempting to resolve things from the same level of abstraction that caused the difficulty in the first place